The Dickinson press., 1887-04-09
GENERAL MEMS.
Windsor, Ont. had Il $4,000 fire.

Fire did great damage to the West.
ern MON telegraph office in Albany,
n. u, Saturday.
John l.. sullivan and members of
his combination paid their respects
to President Cleveland Monday.
Miss Catherine Lorillard. the rich
est unmarried woman in the United
States died in New York Monday.
Capt. Paul Boyton has started on
his voyage down the Hudson river
from Hudson. n. V, to New York
city.
The returns from Monday election
IN Michigan show that the prohibi-
ton amendment was defeated by Il
large majority.
Chief Justice Node, of Montan, has
decided that the law imposing license
upon Interstate commercial travellers
is unconstitutional.
n grand jury in san Francisco has
returned forty indictments against
prominent citizens for conspiracy to
defrand the government.
The vacancy existing for nearly
two years past in the office of minis.
ter from Austria to the United States
has been filled by the appointment of
the Cllcvalicr Schmidt Won Traveras.
The Burlington road has given no.
tice that it will withdraw from the
agreement with the other lines be.
tween Chicago and st. Paul on
freight rates. The road will make II
cut OH present rates.
AT Eau Claire. Wis. SATURDAY., Mrs.
Fort, wife of the proprietor of the
Star house. was struck by Il Milwau.
kee & st. Paul train and probably ia
tally injured. She was walking on
the track and did not see the train.
Adviccs from Bermuda state that
the steamer S%aragosa, Capt Miller,
from Baltimore to Port Antonio,
fountlered ut sea $50 miles north of
Waiting island. The crew were all
saved and were landed ut Bermuda.
At Buffalo, N. u, portions
of another charred body were found
in the Richmond hotel ruins this
Monday. The remains are thought
to be parts of the body of either Min.
ME Kelleo, a servant, or Martin Bell,
the day clerk.
George Sheldon and Daniel Woods
had a quarrel with John S. Smith. a
Sqnaw-man, on the Grow reservation,
about some hides. Smith and IL Ger
man assaulted Woods, w%hereupon
Sheldon shot Smith in the head and
the German i'll the leg. Smith will
probably die.
The boiler in J.. Landy's saw mill,
at Avon, Mimi, exploded Saturday.
The building caught fire and was con.
sumed. Fragments of the mill and
building were hurled through the air
nearly half IL mile. No one was in at
the time of the explosion. Loss
about $4,000.
The steamer Spokane. with twenty.
four passengers, capsiZed on the
Occur d.Nlene river. Five men are
reported lost. Col. Higgins, Bangor,
Maine; l.. Pike, Portland; j.. c. Han.
nah, Spokane Falls; jerome Lewiston
and one deck hand.
Nellie Odds, a handsome young girl,
was poisoned at Chicago last Sunday.
Whether it was a self-administered
or not is unknown. She accuses w.
$. Rogers of having given her the
poison, but he denies the accusation.
lie has, however, been arrested as
there is strong evidence against him.
a terrible explosion occurred at
Savannah. Idaho. in coal Shaft No. |
by which six miners were killed. 4
rescuing party was soon organized
and sent down into the mine, but
they were overpowered by gas and
twelve were %suffocated before they
could be taken out, making eighteen
dead. The mines are worked main.
ly by foreigners and most of the vic.
Tins are Italians.
1t having been stated that a boy.
colt had been placed by the knights
Of Labor district assembly on the
New York sun, Typographical Union
No. 6 adopted resolutions denying
and denouncing amy such attempt to
muzzle the press of this city or of
the country and declaring for the ex.
preston of opinion of the press upon
all matters Of public Importance.
The secretary Of the interior has
requested the secretary of war to
place the western portion of the In.
dian territory, including Oklahoma,
under the jurisdiction and control of
Il single army officer, with instruc.
tons to exercise extreme vigilance
in the matter of preventing an ex.
pected invasion of the territory by
"boomers" during the coming spring
and summer.
At least 10000 people were out last
Sunday at Dubuque, la. to witness the
laying of the corner stone of the Sa-
cred Heart Catholic church, corner of
Eagle Point and Sanford
The day was fine and the occasion one
of great interest. The church is un.
der the charge of Rev. BoumaD as
pastor. Its construction will cost
$4,000, and it will be finished next
fall.
A dispatch from Victoria. b. C.
says the Pacific Coast Steamship COM
pany'S steamer Mexico. which plies
between this port and San Francisco,
is a total wreck OIL Bell Chair reef, in
the Gulf of Gehgia, near the spot
where the ship John Rosenfeld and
the steamer .Alki went ashore. The
Mexico is a wooden steamer of l,34l
tons, six years old and cost $500, 600.
She is believed to be fully insured,